Light Quotes

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinge

Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.

Cicero

Duty is heavier than a mountain, death lighter than a feather.

Jordan, Robert

Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.

Hodding Carte

You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.

Dag Hammarskjld

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

John Berry, Flight of White Crows

Lighter is the wound foreseen.

Cato the Elde

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

George Orwell

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Iris Murdoch

He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened.

Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu

The pleasures which we most rarely experience give us the greatest delight.

Desiderius Erasmus

The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.

Jean Baptiste Lacoraire

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Henry Fielding

I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.

Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Prove

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

Mother Theresa

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

Albert Einstein

There are two ways of passing from this world - One in light and one in darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back but when one passes in darkness, he returns.

Bhagavad Gita

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Joseph Addison

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul.

Pythagorus

Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.

Mark Twain

What is to give light must endure burning.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self - Seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible, 1 Corinthians 13: 4 - 7

The Lord is my light and my salvation - So why should I be afraid.

Bible, Psalm 27: 1 NLT

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

J. Krishnamurti

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

Seneca

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Charles Robert Darwin

Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.

L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but only through and after experience.

John Claypool

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Fulle

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

Daylight, in my mind, the night faded.

Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop